GUN CAMERA COMPILATION IN HD COLOR - PACIFIC AIR COMBAT 1944 FROM USS YORKTOWN [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]

Great quality original color gun camera ( guncam ) reels from the USS Yorktown (CV-10) from the Pacific Theatre 1944 filmed by aircraft while in combat attacking Japanese planes and bases.
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Footage has been:
- Researched
- Digitally restored
- Upscaled to FHD
- Edited
by Look in The Past channel.
After 1942, the United States made a massive effort to build up its aviation forces in the Pacific, and began island-hopping to push its airfields closer and closer to Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Japanese were unable to upgrade their aircraft, and they fell further and further behind in numbers of aircraft carriers. The forward island bases were very hard to supply-often only submarines could get through-and the Japanese forces worked without replacements or rest, and often with inadequate food and medicine. Their morale and performance steadily declined. Starvation became an issue in many bases. The American airmen were well-fed and well-supplied, but they were not rotated and faced increasingly severe stress that caused their performance to deteriorate. They flew far more often in the Southwest Pacific than in Europe, and although rest time in Australia was scheduled, there was no fixed number of missions that would produce transfer back to the States. Coupled with the monotonous, hot, sickly environment, the result was bad morale that jaded veterans quickly passed along to newcomers. After a few months, epidemics of combat fatigue would drastically reduce the efficiency of units.
The most know fighter planes of the pacific war: American side: P-40 Warhawk, F4F Wildfat, F6F Hellcat, P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, F4U Corsair Japanese side: KI-100, KI-102, KI-45, A5M, A6M, J2M, Ki-43. Ki-44

[@NonSektur]

Thank you for the video. Also, THANK YOU for not adding some idiotic music or fake sound effects!!

[@LookinThePastWarArchives]

Glad you like it! On this channel we never put distraction music or fake sounds on the videos. These historic footages are interesting enough by themselves.

[@strainrx]

Great footage, thanks for compiling and sharing

[@LookinThePastWarArchives]

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[@ibuprofenPill]

Thank you for omitting sound effects.

[@ChristopherMundahl]

amazing footage, thank you!

[@Ranmaru_tenka]

アメリカの戦争犯罪映像

[@typhoonhawker6548]

0:07 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa "Oscar" and 5:47 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Type 97 Heavy Bomber "Sally" of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service .

[@Seabass3920]

Those are some pretty large flames coming from the engine of that Ki-21 at 5:47

[@KarimBellot]

2:50 HOLLY JEEZAZ, dont scare us like that!

[@LookinThePastWarArchives]

😁

[@justdoingitjim7095]

Some of those guys are more of a danger to their own planes, than the enemy is!

[@NICOLAI_VET]

10:31 Pulling out of those dives really has to pull some G's

[@tylerrichards6456]

Pilot at 1:41 just like drawing letters in the sea with bullet splashes.
It’s also unusual to see just a single line of tracers/splashes.. unless I’m mistaken the only plane capable of doing that (apart from a plane with one or more jammed guns) is an early TBF Avenger with a single cowl mounted .30. If so it’s funny the pilot thought that would do anything to a ship. He’s just having fun out there.

[@kennethcurtis1856]

Unless you were in the path of those single line tracers.

[@one4thought776]

War is hell ...we are a barbarick race of people

[@artisaprimus6306]

We are reminded how good these pilots were. They were directing fire by aiming the nose of the plane. You can see the bullets landing in circular pattern sometimes.

[@NAFOARMY]

Where our A10s today give accurate on target, close in support. It looks like guns on attack aircraft in WW2 served more to keep the enemies heads down, and a psychological weapon. No doubt they had kills. But I'm certain battle hardened Germans would just stay in the bunkers and wait till the plane left. I know this because I've been obsessed with WW2 diaries lately. And if the enemy can't stick his head out to look what's happening, he is very vulnerable to an infantry attack on his position.

[@hillbilly4christ638]

They seemed to be pretty effective on airfields, railroads and aerial combat. Sure, the gunfire wasn’t accurate by today’s standards but back then it was state of the art.

[@netorossim4051]

No sound?

[@spikefawkes5152]

My uncle was ground crew for the mighty 8th based in Norfolk U.K.

[@jiyushugi1085]

How dangerous were a pilot's own ricochets to his plane?

[@kenneth9874]

That's probably return fire from aa

[@davideldridge4479]

It's aa, and don't forget in between each tracer is at least 3 to 6 rounds that are not a tracer round.

[@鼻毛-d4w]

日本側の対空砲の反撃がありませんね

[@megitoro]

The Yorktown sank June 7th 1942.

[@LookinThePastWarArchives]

CV-10 was commissioned 15 April 1943

[@Ranmaru_tenka]

エセックス級

[@waltherppx6314]

Talk about poor aerial marksmanship...

[@kennethcurtis1856]

Get off your computer and enlist in the AF, doofus.

[@krukpolny8505]

Sabaton - Aces In Exlie PL. RUclips.

[@fridayray8891]

Meatballs a blazing